At €200bn, EU budget 2025 is 6% bigger than this year’s, meaning a €10bn increase. It responds to the needs of Europeans while being able to pay back for the post...

Our current European Diplomacy architecture is defined by its hybrid nature – a mosaic of temporary personnel loans, which mainly big Member States can afford, and...

Child labour in the Congo to extract cobalt for our smartphones and rainforest degradation in Brazil for soy products ending up in our supermarkets are just two examples...

Rarely are the moral, legal, political and economic arguments for action as strong as in the case for confiscating Russia’s state assets to fund Ukraine’s recovery and...

Culture and education give the European project its soul. Without it, the EU would have been a mere economic endeavour. But it is not, and this is its strength. Now, less...

After lengthy negotiations, the European Parliament is set to vote in Strasbourg on the report calling for a Europe-wide approach to prostitution, by decriminalising...

With the social-economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the 2021-27 Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF), the motorhouse...

Political and economic relations between the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific community have been held hostage by Hungary and now Poland. This must end, writes...

We entered the 21st century with the presumption that Europeans and Americans would define the future of the world economy, drawing strength from their open and...

The European Commission is currently reviewing capital market rules through its MiFID II/MiFIR proposal, originally presented in 2021. In the midst of a cost of living...